O Brother, Where Art Thou?Among the Coens most purely pleasurable films. The nearest thing to a real feelgood musical the movies have pulled off in years.

VerdictWith their annual output now as eagerly anticipated as that of Woody Allen, the Coen brothers are cinema's most precious gift: unbending auteurs and cultural magpies, who find poetry in tins of hair-wax and livestock marooned on rooftops. Cherish them.